Security Guard Shoots Man He Identifies As Atm Thief

December 18, 1999|By DAVID CM-AZARES Staff Writer

MIAMI — A thief who held up a customer at an automatic teller machine was killed on Friday when the customer shot him, police said.

Terry Maurice Davis, 30, of Miami, was fatally wounded about 7 a.m. after he robbed an off-duty security guard at a First Union ATM, at Northwest 92nd Street and Seventh Avenue, said Ed Munn, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department.

The security guard, Garnett Campbell, 49, of Miami, had just withdrawn money from the ATM when Davis approached him, Munn said.

Davis stuck his hand beneath his shirt and made it appear that he had a weapon before taking a "sizeable" amount of cash from Campbell, who was not wearing a uniform, Munn said.

The two men scuffled briefly, and Campbell fired several shots with a small semiautomatic handgun, Munn said. Davis was shot in the chest. Munn said the incident might have been captured on the bank's videotape system.

Afterward, Davis fled to his car and drove off, but he crashed into a Shell gas station and convenience store about three blocks away. The car slammed into the store, but a clerk, who was the only person inside, was not injured, Munn said.

Davis was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he died a short time later. Detectives, who interviewed Campbell at the police station, said the case appears to be one of self-defense.

They did not find a weapon in Davis' car but said some of the security guard's missing money was inside.

David Cazares can be reached at dcazares@sun-sentinel.com or 305-810-5012.